Hangers



Dec. 28, 1965 J. M. GANDY 3,225,977

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Dec. 28, 1965 3. M. GANDY 3,225,977

HANGERS Filed Sept. 4, 1963 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR.

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United States Patent 3,225,977 HANGERS John M. Gandy, Box 84, Callery, Pa. Filed Sept. 4, 1963, Ser. N0. 306,560 1 Claim. (Cl. 22385) The present invention is, concerned with a clothes hanger and more particularly, a hanger for a pluralityof clothes.

The principal object of the-invention is to provide an economically producible hanger for a number of trousers, skirts, shorts and the like as well as ties, belts, stockings and other objects of wearing apparel which hanger requires a minimum of space and retains the clothing thereon in a nonwrinkling or creasing position also within a minimum of space allowing a large quantity of clothing to be supported in a given area such as a closet, locker or in a storage area or store selling or cleaning apparel.

A further and important object of the invention is to provide a hanger for a considerable number of pieces of wearing apparel which does not require adjustable elements such as clamps or the like, can support elongated objects or objects having a hook such as pretied ties having collar hooks and which hanger can be made from rod like material and can be of a unitary long lasting construction of pleasant appearance.

Further objects of the invention will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the following description of the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of the present hanger.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 22 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the hanger.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view, reduced size, of the hanger with clothing thereon.

FIG. 5 is a top plan view of a modified form of the hanger.

FIG. 6 is a side elevation of the hanger; and

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 77 of FIG. 5.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings wherein like and corresponding parts are designated by the same reference characters, numeral 1 indicates a concave-convex disc having a book 2 extending from the top convex face of said disc. Hook 2 can be fixedly connected to said disc by welding or other conventional means or can slidably extend through said disc and have a button or flattened end 3 which abuts the bottom concave face of said disc preventing said hook from being pulled upwardly through said disc, but permits said hook to be slid downwardly of said disc for storage purposes.

Said disc has a plurality of rods connected at one end thereto by welding or the like end extending radially therefrom. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, said rods are radial rods 4, 5, 6 and 7 which are equally spaced apart at their outer ends by side rods 11, 12, 13 and 14 which side rods form a square and have one of said radial rods fixedly connected to each of the corners thereof by welding or the like.

Radial rods 4, 5, 6 and 7 each have a pair of crossrods 8 extending laterally thereof and fastened at their middle by welding or the like to said radial rods. Each cross-rod 8 has its opposite ends bent forming eyes 9.

Said hanger also has a plurality of similar sinuous rods 16 each fixedly connected at one end to an end of one of said side rods by welding or the like or as a continuation of said side rod.

Each of said sinuous rods 16 has an end bent a quarter of a turn, a medial portion bent a half turn, a second medial portion 19 also bent a half turn and a bent free end 21 with straight sections 16, 18 and 20 between said bent portions each being of substantially the same length as one of said side rods.

Each sinuous rod has its end 15 fixedly connected to a corner of the square provided by said side rods or an end portion of one of said side rods. Said side rods 11, 12, 13, 14 and said sinuous rods are positioned in the same plane substantially parallel to disc 1, while said radial rods slant downward from said disc to said side rods for convenience in mounting objects on said crossrod.

To use the hanger, hook 2 isengaged with a fixed rod such as a rod extending acrossa closet or the like. Thereupon one or more trousers, skirts, shorts or the like are mounted on said sinuous rods. For example, a trouser A can have the legs thereof slid between straight portions 18 and 20 of a sinuous rod with the cuffs B above the rod whereupon trouser A will hang straight and downwardly retaining the creases in the trousers and preventing wrinkles or cross-creases being formed on the trousers. Other trousers can be slid between straight portions 16 and 18 and further trousers between straight portions 16 and the side rod adjacent thereto such as side rod 11.

Also ties, belts, and the like can be draped over crossrods 8 and any objects having a hook can be hooked through eyes 9.

The hanger of FIGS. 5 to 7 is similar to that of FIG. 1 only having less elements. A concave-convex disc 24 has hook 22 fixed thereto or slidable therethrough with a button 23 on said hook preventing the same from being pulled upwardly from said disc. Radial rods 25, 26 and 27 are fixedly joined by Welding or the like to the concave bottom face of said disc and extend radially and downwardly therefrom. Side rods 31, 32 and 33 are fixedly joined forming a triangle with the other ends of said radial rods each being fixedly connected to one of the apices of said triangle.

Cross-rods 28 each extend normal to one of said radial rods and is fixedly joined thereto by welding 30 or the like and has bent ends forming eyes 29.

Sinuous rods 35 each have one end 34 bent a quarter of a turn, a medial portion 36 bent a half turn, a second medial portion 38 also bent a half turn and a bent free end 40 with straight portions 35, 37 and 39 parallel to their adjacent side rod and in a plane substantially parallel to disc 24.

The hanger of FIGS. 5 to 7 is used in the same manner as the hanger of FIG. 1, with hook 22 hooked onto a supporting rod, not shown, trousers, skirts and the like slide between the straight portions of said sinuous rods, ties, belts and the like draped on cross-rods 28 and other objects hooked through eyes 29.

The present hangers may be formed from metal and if so the sinuous rods 16 and 35 should be of a resilient material such as steel whereas the remainder of the hanger may be ofthe same material or a more rigid material such as wood. However other metals may be used such as aluminum, copper or the like. The hanger may be formed of a plastic and can be molded as a unitary article or of interconnected elements of plastic or combinations of material. The radial rods can each be formed with a side rod and sinuous rod from one piece of material or be fixedly connected rods or said side rods can be one piece of rod or each a single piece of rod with its connected sinuous rod. Also said side rods can form other plane geometrical figures than shown and more or less radial rods, side rods or sinuous rods used than shown in the drawings or sinuous rods having more turns can be employed. The present hangers are thus capable of considerable modification and such changes thereto as come within the scope of the appended claim are deemed a part of the invention.

I claim:

A hanger comprising a hook, a plurality of radial rods each having opposite ends with one of said ends connected to said hook and said rods extending radially from said hook, a plurality of straight side rods each extending between and having opposite ends connected to the other of said ends of a pair of said radial rods, sinuous rods each having an end fixedly connected to one of said opposite ends of one of said side rods, each of said sinuous rods having a plurality of straight sections each of a length similar to their connected side rod with adjacent sections positioned alongside one another and one straight section thereof extending alongside its connected side rod and all of said sinuous rods and side rods being positioned in the same plane.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 4/1859 Fletcher 211-115 5/1889 Babcock 211-113 3/1905 Rhoads 211115 X 9/ 1905 Knollman 22369 X 8/1906 Stansbury 22396 FOREIGN PATENTS 4/ 1937 Denmark.

5/ 1958 Great Britain.

7/ 1939 Switzerland.

JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

G. H. KRIZMANICH, Assistant Examiner. 

